LAVONIA, Ga. — Chris Madden led a one-two-sweep for Scott Bloomquist’s Team Zero Thursday night at Lavonia Speedway.

Madden won a side-by-side battle with his team owner, Bloomquist, during the last 15 laps of the World of Outlaws Morton Buildings Late Model Series feature. It was his second win of the season and 26^thof his career.

Bloomquist held on for second, fending off a fierce charge from home-state driver Brandon Overton in the closing laps.

Overall, both of the Sweet-Bloomquist Chassis pilots had terrific nights. Second-place finishes in their Drydene Heat races set Madden up for a pole position redraw result and earned Bloomquist a starting spot inside row two.

Madden took off instantly, grabbing the lead into turn one with Brandon Sheppard hot on his tail. The two were quickly locked into a battle of their own, Sheppard working the bottom lane trying to get underneath Madden in the middle.

Sheppard came close several times to pulling even with Madden in his bid for the lead but could never make the move. A restart at halfway restacked the field and gave Sheppard another shot at the leader, but again, could not get by Madden’s No. 0m.

Another restart came just four circuits later. Sheppard decided to try the top side of the speedway on Madden but slipped over the cushion and lost two spots to Bloomquist and Overton.

Overton cracked the whip with 15-to-go and caught the rear of the in-progress Bloomquist and Madden battle for the lead.

Bloomquist hounded his teammate down low, while Madden stayed smooth in the middle to defend his lead. Overton entered the picture and tried every lane to get around the two teammates, but after several laps of inside-outside racing, he could not find a way around the leaders.

A final restart with seven laps remaining allowed Madden to pull away a bit with less than 5-to-go and take it all the way home for his first World of Outlaws win at Lavonia. Both teams are happy, both drivers are happy, and it’s been one incredible summer of racing for Scott Bloomquist Racing that shows no signs of slowing down heading into the fall.

“It’s been awesome to unite back with Scott,” Madden said. “He’s been a big help to me, and I feel like we’ve been a big help to him. It’s just been awesome to put some cars together, put some teams together and be able to produce the way we have.”

Both battles Madden fought with Sheppard and Bloomquist were relentless at times, but through the restarts and all, Madden had his veteran skills working overtime for him on Thursday night.

“I just kept my composure and didn’t miss my marks,” Madden said. “I wasn’t even trying to ‘hold them off,’ I just had to find where I was the best at, and I found it, and won the race.”

Bloomquist played an incredible amount of defense in the final laps, holding off Overton’s late-race rally and bid for the lead.

“I couldn’t really hang as good as I wanted to early, but I thought if I just mileaged my tires and didn’t push it too hard, I might have been a factor later in the race,” Bloomquist said.

After a rough original start, Overton seemed to have driven his car as hard as anyone else in the second half of the feature to get back to the front

“Notoriously, I think these races around here are won on the bottom,” Overton said. “If you get out of that bottom, you just go backwards. But where I was at, I really felt like I had nothing to lose, so I was probably the first one to go to the top. When I moved up there, they were just in the wrong spot on the racetrack for a while.”

The finish:

Feature (50 Laps) 1. OM-Chris Madden [1][$10,000]; 2. 0-Scott Bloomquist [3][$5,000]; 3. 2-Brandon Overton [5][$3,000]; 4. 1-Brandon Sheppard [2][$2,500]; 5. 18-Chase Junghans [6][$2,000]; 6. 25-Shane Clanton [10][$1,700]; 7. 87-Ross Bailes [7][$1,400]; 8. B1-Brent Larson [17][$1,300]; 9. 28-Dennis Erb [9][$1,200]; 10. 29-Darrell Lanigan [8][$1,100]; 11. 6-Blake Spencer [21][$1,050]; 12. 99B-Boom Briggs [15][$1,000]; 13. 4-Matthew Nance [20][$950]; 14. 7-Ricky Weiss [4][$900]; 15. O1-Travis Pennington [12][$850]; 16. 22-Chris Ferguson [13][$800]; 17. F1-Payton Freeman [14][$770]; 18. 97-Cade Dillard [16][$750]; 19. 1c-Kenny Collins [11][$730]; 20. 42-Cla Knight [18][$700] Hard Charger: 6-Blake Spencer[+10]